{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=291","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=289","results":[{"id":2891,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2891/?format=json","text_counter":145,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Members, that brings us to the end of Order No.6."},{"id":2892,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2892/?format=json","text_counter":146,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Next Order!"},{"id":2893,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2893/?format=json","text_counter":147,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS"},{"id":2894,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2894/?format=json","text_counter":148,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"COURT RULING AGAINST PRESIDENT OF SUDAN"},{"id":2895,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2895/?format=json","text_counter":149,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":" Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am offering to make a short unsolicited Statement to the House on the issue of the court case against the President of Sudan."},{"id":2896,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2896/?format=json","text_counter":150,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"On 28th November this year, a court sitting in Nairobi made a ruling ordering the arrest of the Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir in the event he sets foot in Kenya. Within 12 hours of the ruling, the Kenyan Ambassador to Sudan, Amb. Robert Ngesu was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Khartoum at midnight and given 24 hours to leave. Sudan also ordered its ambassador to Kenya to vacate and go back within 72 hours."},{"id":2897,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2897/?format=json","text_counter":151,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, based on this, President Mwai Kibaki sent me as his Minister for Foreign Affairs with the Minister of State for Defence, hon. Yusuf Haji, to deliver a special note to his counterpart on the issue. The content of the letter was in part to the effect that courts in Kenya are not under the control of the Executive and that when a decision such as that is made, the appropriate avenue for redress is appeal, and that the Government had instructed the Attorney-General to file an appeal."},{"id":2898,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2898/?format=json","text_counter":152,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"We did meet the President of Sudan and in our meeting, it came out that several retaliatory or reprisal measures were being undertaken by Sudan against Kenya."},{"id":2899,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2899/?format=json","text_counter":153,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"(a) One thousand five hundred Kenyans living and working in Sudan, who include 450 students, were being expelled from Sudan."},{"id":2900,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/2900/?format=json","text_counter":154,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Foreign Affairs","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"(b) Our Ambassador was under expulsion."}]}